German politician gets 6 months of probation for sporting a Nazi tattoo

Alexander Marguier via APGerman politician Marcel Zech is seen with a tattoo at a public swimming pool in Oranienburg, eastern Germany.

A German court found a politician guilty on Tuesday for sporting a tattoo bearing the tower and gates of Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, according to German paper, Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten.

Marcel Zech, 27, a member of the far-right National Democratic Party and a council member near Berlin, was given six months probation for the tattoo, which was discovered when he went to a public pool on November 21, 2015.